This AI push is stagnating innovation.
I think it’s the other way around, corporate consolidation (including capturing our governments and getting all research funding) killed innovation a while ago and now AI is just the latest non-idea that is being used to cover up that none of the corporations have any new ideas. Even Apple’s latest good idea, ARM laptops, was basically done by cheap Linux nettops a decade ago.
If your phone is too much of a pain to get out of your pocket, surely a watch or bracelet is a better form factor for this.
It doesn’t take a genius to win at chess when your opponent is playing checkers and eating the pieces
The test seems kind of dogshit, you could make the same argument against any tool, calculators or even abacuses would have the same effect.
I’m made to use it for work and it does speed up some tasks, however for some stuff it ends up being like the experiment where not doing the work the first time means the whole process takes longer at the end.
Didn’t Macron raise the age of retirement for men? /s
Stuff that is getting slopified was already basically slop to begin with, I know people need to do something to survive under capitalism but if your job is reading Wikipedia articles it shouldn’t be shocking that you’re first on the chopping block.
That sucks for Chinese residents if the power company will jack up their prices, but is it going to make a huge difference in an industry where all companies are losing money to pay slightly more for the electricity?
Several years behind in what sense?
AI workloads in datacenters don’t care if the silicone is slightly bigger or less efficient, an AI workload doesn’t need fancy instruction sets.
for use in desktops or laptops, sure NVIDIA can be years ahead but for AI stuff do their improvements really matter?
Not really this is a trade deal that has been negotiated for a long time. Plus US->EU is largely services, oil/gas & pharmaceuticals, this is competition largely for agricultural imports that risks increasing deforestation & hurting European farmers, in exchange for opening up South American markets to EU services & manufactured exports.
https://trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-footprint-us/home
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/eu-mercosur-trade/
I could be wrong but I think this is more of a threat to the US in terms of trying to move in on the US sitting on the highest value positions of the supply chain for South America.
Labour’s poll numbers that bad huh?
Because any webpage you load has total control of the content it serves, including the plaintext of your emails along with the keys you use to decrypt them.
e2e encryption in browser is effectively not e2e in any meaningful sense, this goes for any thing, but Proton are the worst for trying to convince you that they can’t do this.
Software that is targeting people who might need encryption should be honest about it’s own limitations.
Also their “e2e” is only in the browser, which is only e2e if they don’t get a warrant, at which point it’s trivial for them to get your browser to decrypt everything for them.
I wouldn’t mind Proton if:
Spiderman meme.
He’s not wrong that triggering a war for the benefit of Iran is treason.
But settling on unfavorable terms for internal political benefit would also be treason.
how would unions work?
They would represent workers, you should look into actual communist theory if you don’t understand the point of unions.
if you have a socialist economy, an independent union is essentially bargaining with all of society.
Yes, to think that’s a bad thing is insane. Do you oppose public sector unions too? Fucking teachers are essentially bargaining with all of society do you think that’s bad?
Also all unions are bargaining with society, the capitalists are extracting profit but they are also part of the market and some costs/conditions will be passed on to the rest of society.
Plus docks in most of the world are publicly owned! Do you oppose the ILWU refusing to unload Israeli ships because they are holding the rest of society hostage.
how would unions work?
Also there was literally a model for this in the USSR before Lenin crushed them, the SOVIETS, there are a bunch of other models too.
Unions are even useful in cooperatives, maybe spend less time reading theory and more time helping workers organize and you’d realize how dumb it is to think that workers (who are a part of society) are evil and selfish.
I mean FFS you’re LARPing as a communist, yet you think workers are too selfish and evil to run society, WTF is wrong with you?
but from my understanding there is a fair amount of labour organizing going on there.
Yeah illegal organizing done in secret like every other authoritarian regime, worse than in social democracies. Also from my understanding much of the organizing is done amongst immigrant communities who are treated worse and often have their passports held in conditions on par with UAE & Saudi Arabia.
They trapped him in his office and the police didn’t raise a finger to free him. Fat chance in hell that you’d see that in any western country.
Firstly, look into the French & Korean Labor movements. But secondly that doesn’t mean shit, a king can allow pedants to kill a corrupt Lord/Sheriff that doesn’t make him a socialist.
As for public healthcare, there is, it’s just not completely free. The cost is very low, however, and the same goes for high shool. They just recently expanded affordable public childcare as well. Their recent anti-poverty program was also very successful.
Ridiculous excuse, you are claiming China is more socialist than social democracies where workers get free access to healthcare & education, which are part of the means of social reproduction, how is it more socialist for workers to have less control over the means of production?
A lot of it was due to the struggle of the domestic labour movement, yes, but a big part of it was also the threat of the Soviet Union
Lol, sorry you can’t be serious, labor unions predate the USSR and while the USSR violently crushed labor organizing within it’s borders, the Russian revolution was led by labor (who then stupidly stayed in the war and were replaced by the Bolsheviks)
On one hand, China does not have a global empire to extract profits from
Lol, economic extraction bad when US does it, good when China does it 🤦♂️
I’m sorry but defending China as socialist because the state is doing well at developmentaliam, is dumb, Indian is doing a lot of terrible developmentalism, that doesn’t make it socialist.
The main reason, however, is that capital is not in control of China. Capital is allowed to exist, and has a seat at the table, but it is constrained by the state. If capitalists cross certain lines, if they get too corrupt, act against the national interest, or act egregiously against the interests of society, they are dealt with very harshly, up to and including execution.
You’re describing a social democracy, except in a well run system you don’t need executions to scare people into compliance.
they’re doing so much better than any western country, where capital is unconstrained,
By what metric?
Also capital isn’t unconstrained in social democracies, it’s funny that you stealman China as if workers hold any real power, but strawman social democracies where workers actually do.
Sorry but if you think you can have a socialist state without worker control of the means of production, you’re delusional to the point of making something definitionally impossible and thinking you’ve made a point, it’s like arguing with a fundamentalist Christian who just says “God has a plan” when confronted with kids with bone cancer.
Git was started by Linus but he doesn’t run GitHub
compare that to the cost of running the DeepSeek model on comparable hardware (because it is open weight).
What?
You can’t compare the cost of running a model at home to the cost of running a model operationally as a business.
Or at least nobody should take that comparison seriously.
If OpenAI/Anthropic are selling at a loss
Why the If, we know they are running at huge losses.
Honestly this level of poster analysis is why clankers are able to impress people, everyone has just accepted full bullshit all of the time and nobody is willing to admit the unknowns are significant and the numbers we are being presented are largely unverified/unverifiable!
but they’re certainly closer to socialism than any Western democracies.
How is a state where workers can’t organize more socialist than one where workers can?
but they’re much more responsive to the needs and interests of the people than any western democracy
Lol, there is no public healthcare, no free childcare, you have to pay to go to high school, no unions, I don’t see how you can claim they are more responsive to people’s needs than states that y-know respond to people’s needs?
Do you think Korean communist took power?
Do you think they still have power (despite writing communism out of their constitution)?
I don’t think the success of a Korean warlord that paid lip service to communism in order to get aid from the communist block, was much of a victory for the working class.
And while Mao was more genuine in his attempt to build a socialist socialist, I don’t think modern day china with it’s ban on unions is in any way more socialist than any other capitalist nation, especially not ones where workers enjoy secotral bargaining.
Didn’t realize my phone sent it’s rotation data without promoting, everything else is kind of needed to send me info.
My IP
My screen size
My interactions with the page